The statements in this forum have not been evaluated by Food and Drug Administration and are generated by non-professional writers. Any products described are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Website Disclosure :

This forum contains general information about diet, health and nutrition. The information is not advice and is not a substitute for advice from a healthcare professional.

The present study examined the effects of systematic manipulation of breathhold duration on the Physiological, cognitive and subjective response to marijuana smoke in a group of eight marijuana smokers. Subjects were exposed to each of three breathhold duration conditions (0, 10 and 20 sec) on three occasions, scheduled according to a randomized block design. A controlled smoking procedure was used in which the number of puffs, puff volume and postpuff inhalation volume were held constant. Expired air carbon monoxide levels were measured before and after smoking to monitor smoke intake. Typical marijuana effects (increased heart rate, increased ratings of â€œhighâ€ and impaired memory performance) were observed under each of the breathhold conditions, but there was little evidence that response to marijuana was a function of breathhold duration.

Gold Member

I've read and heard TONS about how your lungs just do not have the capacity to absorb ALL the thc in your hit, unless it's a really small hit, and has some room to move around in there, it just has to do with the thickness of the smoke and the walls of your lungs and stuff, I'm not sure if the amount is as low as 15% but I dont think that its 100% or 90% either..

I like to take small inhales of air while i'm holding it to like, stir it up on the walls of my lungs
I feel like it makes a small difference.

Click to expand...

Fair enough, then let me rephrase - you absorb ~95% of the THC your lungs can possibly absorb from the smoke almost immediately.

In all honesty, just hold it in for 10 seconds, taste your bud.. Don't just fucking suck in, and blow ( no homo ) because you'll get high, but you won't enjoy the process as much as if you could taste your bud. Keep it in your lungs, and just hold it deep using your abdominal area for about 10 seconds.

In all honesty, just hold it in for 10 seconds, taste your bud.. Don't just fucking suck in, and blow ( no homo ) because you'll get high, but you won't enjoy the process as much as if you could taste your bud. Keep it in your lungs, and just hold it deep using your abdominal area for about 10 seconds.

Click to expand...

Because tasting your bud and deoxygenating yourself are the same thing.

And then i've read these studies about how 90% percent of the THC is absorbed instantly, and that makes ZERO sense because your lungs can't even absorb 90 percent PERIOD, like even if you held it for 5 minutes, only so much can be absorbed out of a single hit, and its NOT 90%...

I've heard some ppl say only 20% can be absorbed out of each hit but idk about that.. I've obnly heard about that a couple times..

Click to expand...

Where are you getting this information because it sounds like your just saying things that you think could be true or make sense to you or you think you heard about it before lol

I've read and heard TONS about how your lungs just do not have the capacity to absorb ALL the thc in your hit, unless it's a really small hit, and has some room to move around in there, it just has to do with the thickness of the smoke and the walls of your lungs and stuff, I'm not sure if the amount is as low as 15% but I dont think that its 100% or 90% either..

I like to take small inhales of air while i'm holding it to like, stir it up on the walls of my lungs
I feel like it makes a small difference.[/quote]

This actually works cause I guess your lower lungs absorb more thc .... So taking that extra breath is good to get the smoke to your lower lungs

Staff MemberModerator

I've read and heard TONS about how your lungs just do not have the capacity to absorb ALL the thc in your hit, unless it's a really small hit, and has some room to move around in there, it just has to do with the thickness of the smoke and the walls of your lungs and stuff, I'm not sure if the amount is as low as 15% but I dont think that its 100% or 90% either..

I like to take small inhales of air while i'm holding it to like, stir it up on the walls of my lungs
I feel like it makes a small difference.

Click to expand...

I often do the same, except I exhale a bit and bring in more oxygen. I feel it helps.

Your lungs are lined with millions of alveoli, the tiny air sacs where gas exchange occurs. These alveoli have an enormous surface area -- 90 times greater than that of your skin -- so they make it easy for THC and other compounds to enter the body. The smoke is absorbed by the lungs just seconds after inhaling.

Click to expand...

The way I think about it is:
When we breathe oxygen, it's in and out of our lungs almost instantly. We don't hold our oxygen "hit" in our lungs to breathe because of how fast the gas exchange is. So I figure it shouldn't be much different with smoke.